Hi guys, I own an Asus wl-500w router and recently I was thinking installing an openwrt on it.

After some reading on the forums and the wikis I think currently I can only install brcm-2.4 because the well-know driver issue for broadcom wireless card.
Well I have in fact another option, which means I could try brcm47xx(It is 2.6, am I right?) and buy a atheros card to replace the broadcom.
But it costs an extra money, and I have to open the box of the router, which is a little hard for me I am very good at messing stuffs up.
So is it worthy to buy a new card to try 2.6? I mean, is there going to be any significant performance increasing if I use 2.6? Thanks

i highly recommend 2.6 b broadcom wireless, but thats getting much much better building the latest trunk, can someone confirm that...

For my personal experience, ninety-nine percent I will turn my router into a brick, if I compile the kernel myself
For linux on my pc I am not worried cause I have livecd and I can try to compile kernel as much as I will

But for router, I have but one chance.....

As far i know, is that the b43 Wireless Driver for brcm47xx ist to 100% stable yet....last Time i tested my Router went un usr/sys usage to 1.5 to 2.3 everytime someone used wireless in my house.

Dunno about the builds "snapshots" after 8.09.2-RCX.

(Last edited by kaliber on 18 Sep 2009, 09:29)